Parents and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidates are up in arms after the Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) marks were excluded from their overall mean score, forcing students who are studying the subject to abandon it midstream.
Controversy erupted after the 2025 KCSE examination results were released, and it emerged that KSL had not been factored into the final mean grade for candidates without hearing impairment.
Many of the affected candidates had opted for KSL to avoid the technical complexities of Kiswahili, only to end up with incomplete or low aggregates.
According to the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec), 4,162 candidates sat the KSL paper in the 2025 KCSE examination, of whom 3,493 did not have any hearing impairment.
“These candidates had not sat KSL at the KCPE level and were never declared or documented to have acquired a hearing impairment during their secondary school period of study.
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